Harrison
Your emails are coming to the list with
[email protected] in the"reply to" instead of
[email protected]
which is what normally appears. I would suggest you may have to check
your email settings or your settings on the list serv.
Eric
Harrison Owen wrote:
*For some reason replies addressed to the **OSLIST** come to me. I
could ascribe this to Paul’s weirdness (see below), but since he is
not the only one, it is obviously catching. I would like to think it
was because of my magnetic personality, but I know that won’t fly.
Must be some cybernetic gremlin somewhere, and I don’t really care,
and have no problem forwarding the mail to the “right” address. But
when you look at the names and issues on line, it does seem like I am
talking to myself. No – Don’t go there!!*
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*Harrison *
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*From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Thursday, March 02, 2006 4:25 PM
*To:* ; [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: A Quiet Time
Dear Fellow 'Spaceniks':
Well, this is going to be weird, be warned.
Wendy wrote:
"This principle is an opportunity to invite the presence of each soul
gathered--to invite them as fully as possible into the present moment."
This provoked a remembrance in me about what I felt at the time was a
profound insight. It may or may not be to others. It has to do with
physics and light. And it has to do with being "fully as possible in
the present moment" with others. /When/ is that, anyway?
When we look out at any celestial object, sun, moon, 'star', etc., we
are seeing */old /*light, that is, the light of the /past moment/ in
time in our /present moment in time/. Thus, from the point of view of
us, the viewer, we are seeing the past. As a silly example, the light
we get from the sun is about 9 minutes old, as I recall. We don't know
if nine minutes from now, or in the next second for that matter, the
sun won't 'wink out'. Fortunately, so far, it hasn't.
When we we see an impossible-to-fathom galaxy far, far away, we don't
really know that it exists in our /now/ because it took millions of
our years for the light from that galaxy to reach us. Millions of
years of linear time have passed for that galaxy. It is really, really
"old" light. It could have entered a black hole meanwhile and right
now, in this present moment, it might be disappearing. We simply don't
know because the light hasn't gotten here yet to tell us of its
changed circumstances.
So, what does this have to do with being here, now, in this present
moment. Well, when I am standing in front of another person in a room,
even just three feet apart, the light coming from that person is in an
infinitesimally small bit of time in the past. Scotty could beam that
person up and I would realize they were gone a nanosecond later (more
silliness). Thus, in physics and light, we are never in the EXACT same
time as the person we are talking to/ as long as we are not touching./
Each is in the infinitesimally small past of the other.
However, the insight was that /when we are touching, and only then,
are we able to be fully present in the exact same time-moment with
another human being./ Thus, hugging is so rewarding on multiple
levels. We are truly 'together' at that moment. Holding hands is
another example, as is making love, giving a massage, etc. Fully
present, fully alive, fully functioning in the same physical
time/space moment. Thus, /touching is transformative./ It is the
moment when healing of all kinds can occur (doesn't necessarily
happen, but can occur). It was mind blowing for me at the time and
still is. Because the present moment is the only time transformation
can occur. Whew!!
Well, what might this have to do with open space sessions? I've often
wondered what the energy flow might be if we were connected by holding
hands, touching bare feet, etc., during a discussion session (some
would be rendered speechless because they can't wave their
hands---that thought occurred to me, lol) and whether or not the
psychic energy bouncing around /in the exact same space/time
continuum/ might not produce insights and aha's of an order of
magnitude 'greater' than now is achieved.
I warned you this was going to be weird. :)
Paul Everett
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